Under pressure

Zeiynab Mamediarova, who is the best chess player of Azerbaijan, said that Azeri women chess players were under pressure as “enemious character” against Armenians is sowed among them.

According to Azeri media, Mamediarova admitted that the most difficult meeting in Dresden was the one with Armenians when they have been crucially defeated by 4-0 points.

“The only reason of that defeat was the pressure on us. Armenians did not have such feelings and they managed to get well prepared to the game. Any game with Armenia is much spoken in our country and everything is accepted not as it is to be,” she said.

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It is in line with what Radjabov had said about armenian players as being his enemies. Later he made an announcement that made an impression that words were put in his mouth by the azeri interviewer.In contrast, Aronian has mentioned several times his friendship with Mamedyarov and praised Radjabov’s games. And Akopian in his recent interview to azeri source had good things to say about azeri team